Dr Gerbrand Tholen is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. His monograph ‘The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market: Media, Policy and Political Discourses in the UK’ was published in September 2014.
In September – November 2014, the British Academy held its second series of ‘British Academy Debates’, on the subject of Immigration. The three Debates were held in Birmingham, Liverpool and London. This article reproduces the first part of the British Academy’s booklet on ‘Immigration’.
In 2014, nearly 50 per cent of all 18-year-olds decided to go to university. However, are these benefits to the individual to be taken for granted, and will the graduate wage premium hold up as graduates form a greater proportion of the labour market? Does the significant individual benefit that …
In October 2014, the British Academy held three events to mark the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas. In recognition of Thomas’s standing as one of the best known radio voices of all time, the Academy collaborated with BBC Radio 3 to commission a series of five essays from …
On 31 October 2014, in celebration of World Cities Day 2014, the British Academy held a seminar on ‘Social Innovation and Creative Responses to Global Urban Challenges’, which highlighted the role and importance of social innovation in contemporary urban change and ‘smart’ liveable city spaces. One of the speakers, Adam …
On 18 November 2014, the British Academy hosted a showcase event that explored ‘The Social and Economic Benefits of Cultural Heritage’. The evening featured presentations by some of the British Academy-sponsored overseas institutes. This article is based on the presentation by Professor Bill Finlayson, Director of the Council for British …
In December 2014, the British Academy published an edition of Tallis and Byrd’s 1575 Cantiones sacrae, a collection of Latin motets dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I and intended to serve as a cultural ambassador in continental Europe. The volume’s editor, Dr John Milsom, discusses its origins, contents and significance.
Article by Penny Coombe on the Roman sculpture from London and South-East England, which would form part of the latest British contribution to the international Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani – a definitive catalogue of the sculpture of the Roman Empire.
The recent film ‘The Imitation Game’ has portrayed the part played by the mathematician Alan Turing in decrypting the messages sent from the German Enigma machine in the Second World War. But Nigel Vincent and Helen Wallace remind us that other skills – particularly in languages – have always been …
In March 2015 the British Academy will be taking delivery of a new addition to its collection of artworks adorning the walls of 10-11 Carlton House Terrace. The artist Patrick Hughes is producing for the Academy a version of his recent work A Study of the Studiolo. Professor Martin Kemp …
The convenor of a British Academy Conference held in September 2014 reports on a timely discussion of the effectiveness of global development targets. Dr Clive Gabay is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London.
On 13 October 2014, Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield FBA, Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London, delivered the first British Academy Lecture in Politics and Government, on ‘What are Prime Ministers for?’ The following article contains edited extracts from the question and answer session that …
This is the latest in a series of interviews with Fellows of the British Academy, showing leading humanities and social sciences academics at work. Dame Helen Wallace was previously Professor in the European Institute at the London School of Economics. Since 2011 she has been the British Academy’s Foreign Secretary, …
From the Archive. An account of how Mrs Frida Mond (1847-1923) - a friend of the British Academy’s first Secretary, Israel Gollancz - provided generous support for the recently established body, particularly in the field of English language and literature.
